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³⁶Eleoenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, ³⁷Ziza son of Shipi (son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah). ³⁸These who are named above were the leaders of their clans. Their extended families increased greatly in numbers. ³⁹They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east of the valley, looking for pasture for their sheep. ⁴⁰They found fertile and rich pasture; the land was very broad, undisturbed and peaceful. Indeed some Hamites had been living there prior to that. ⁴¹The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements, as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, for they found pasture for their sheep there. ⁴²Five hundred men of Simeon, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to the hill country of Seir